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Reformed Education is an explanation for the people of God of the fundamentals of Christian day-school education. The book demonstrates that the basis of the Christian school is God's covenant of grace with believers and their children. Treating such vital subjects as the place of Scripture and the
Click to look inside The Covenant of God and the Children of Believers defends the Reformed faith of the covenant of God by exposing the view of the covenant from which the attack of the "federal vision" arises. At the same time, the book sets forth the doctrine of the covenant that safeguards and
BRITISH REFORMED JOURNAL 2 22 22 But in what light are we to consider these baptized infants or young? Are they members of the church to be brought ìup in the nurture and admonition of the Lordî (Eph. 6:4) or are they ìlittle vipersî who need to be evangelized? Regrettably more than four centuries d
April 2009 121 Book Reviews (101). Reformed theology “ar- rived at the unanimous confession that the children of believers were as much included in the covenant of grace as their believing par- ents…. The Holy Spirit could grant them the grace of regenera- tion…he did this consistently in the chi
Professor Engelsma’s book on Reformed education, first published in 1977, now appears in a revised edition. A thoughtful chapter analyzing the present trend toward home education has been added. Those parents of Presbyterian and Reformed conviction who are inclined toward home education, would be we
Protestant Reformed Theological Journal parents. Those gripped by the Reformed worldview regard children as a blessing. They are determined to hand the worldview down to their children and grandchildren. It is anathema to them that their children be ignorant of the worldview they regard as true,
The goal of Reformed, Christian education flows out of the covenantal basis. The author warns that Christian education must not start in the Spirit and then end with some fleshly goal such as the successful, cultured gentleman. The goal rather is the "mature man of God, who lives in this world in ev
Reformed churches. Gerstner ex- amines the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Oordt, and the Reformed baptism form and concludes that they too teach that the children of believers are included in the covenant in the sense that they are regenerated in infancy. Concerning the
BRITISH REFORMED JOURNAL and prominence it assigns to the doctrine of human sinfulness and corrup tion," "the paramount importance it attaches to the work and office of our Lord Jesus Christ," "the high place which it assigns to the inward work of the Holy Spirit in the heart of man," and "the impor
One of the most powerful instruments in the Protestant Reformed Churches for the salvation of souls and the coming of the Kingdom of God is catechism. To their children and young people, the churches give sound, systematic, intensive, and thorough instruction in the truth of Holy Scripture -- the hi